One Sunday evening many years ago, two young fellows, both named Robert, were at a Gospel meeting. As they wended their way home, one of them who knew the Lord as his Saviour, turned to the other and said,
“Well Robert, what did you think of the message tonight? Are you going to trust in the Saviour?”
“That way of being saved is far too easy,” said his friend, and for some time they walked on talking of the all-important subject of being saved.
Presently they came to a stone bridge which went over the railway line, and as they stood looking over the rails the Christian boy said,
“Do you remember the building of that tunnel yonder? It took some years to build, it cost a large amount of money and more than one man lost his life over the job. Since then, you and I have often been through that tunnel. It was easy for us to get in the train and go through, but it was pretty costly to make such a thing possible. So, in the same way it wasn’t easy to make it possible that you and I might be saved. It cost God the giving up of His Son: it cost the Saviour the sufferings of Calvary, the bearing of the judgment, in order that you and I might be eternally blessed. O! Robert, it wasn’t easy for God, although we may find it easy to trust the Saviour.”
“I hadn’t thought of it like that before,” said his friend, and after a little more conversation the two Roberts went down on their knees on the stone bridge, and the one who until that night had not heeded the gospel message, there and then took the Lord Jesus as his Saviour, owning his need of Him, and thanking Him for making it possible that he might be saved.
It was two happy young fellows who left that bridge. On their way home they called to see a Christian friend, and the one who had so recently trusted the Saviour told how the Lord had saved him that evening on the bridge.
What rejoicing there was in that little room! And what is more, there was rejoicing also that night in the courts of glory over another sinner repenting.
Has there ever been joy in heaven over you, my dear young reader? There has, if you have come as a needy sinner to the Saviour and trusted in Him.
ML 07/31/1938